Hacker News: larvaetron

New comment by larvaetron in "Sony DTC-700 audio DAT player/recorder"

larvaetron — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 18:42:34 +0000

> ... VHS players rapidly became throw-away items – eventually nobody really cared if they only lasted a year or two.

I don't know if I'm losing my marbles, but I don't ever recall a time growing up when my family (or anyone else I knew) were buying a new VCR every year or two.

New comment by larvaetron in "Apple Shortcuts is falling into "the automation gap""

larvaetron — Mon, 05 May 2025 11:47:22 +0000

> The saddest part is that both the Alexa and Apple walled gardens spent years constraining users from integrating with other ecosystems, but now they are all racing to give data to 3rd-party LLMs like OpenAI, Anthropic and Gemini, which can ... integrate with other ecosystems via APIs, MCP servers.

That reminds me of an announcement maybe about a year(?) ago, when people on the internet were making a huge deal out of ChatGPT integrating with Wolfram Alpha like it was this game changer, and I just remember thinking... we already had this with Siri over a decade ago, with no LLM middleman necessary, until Apple decided to kill it and start integrating their "machine learning" into all their products around mid 2010s.

New comment by larvaetron in "They made computers behave like annoying salesmen"

larvaetron — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 18:06:59 +0000

Got it!

New comment by larvaetron in "Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Rear-Ending Motorcyclists More Than Any Other"

larvaetron — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 15:43:21 +0000

> Cars unlike aircraft don’t need to move forward to maintain safety.

They do if they're crossing railroad tracks.

New comment by larvaetron in "McDonald's gives its restaurants an AI makeover"

larvaetron — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 16:41:35 +0000

> the exact same pitch would have been used with “big data” in the 2010s

I'm surprised I don't see this mentioned more often. The tech industry feels like a "more obvious than usual" case of déjà vu these past few years.

New comment by larvaetron in "Company claims 1k% price hike drove it from VMware to open source rival"

larvaetron — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 13:08:52 +0000

> You can't have RAM sync between hosts.

That's what FT is for, if the primary VM instance dies or becomes unresponsive, you failover to the mirror instance.

New comment by larvaetron in "New York governor to launch bill banning smartphones in schools"

larvaetron — Thu, 30 May 2024 21:29:19 +0000

I guess I just don't share the sentiment that giving every child in a classroom unfettered access to content designed to distract them while a teacher is trying to teach the class is a good thing. I'm having difficulty understanding why you'd need to be convinced that it isn't.

New comment by larvaetron in "New York governor to launch bill banning smartphones in schools"

larvaetron — Thu, 30 May 2024 20:24:45 +0000

I still don't understand why they were ever allowed in the first place. I went to public school in the 00s and if you got caught with your phone out in class, it would be confiscated until the end of the day. Repeat offenders would need their parents to come up to the school to get the phone back.

New comment by larvaetron in "Airbnb bookings for the solar eclipse reach astronomical levels"

larvaetron — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 17:12:07 +0000

> As of this moment 100% of comments have to do with “I guess other people have a lot of money”. Very weird thing to be concerned about.

This has to be the most out of touch statement I've seen on HN in a long time.

New comment by larvaetron in ""I Miss My Liver." Nonmedical Sources in the History of Hepatocentrism (2018)"

larvaetron — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 19:13:30 +0000

Can HN get rid of the light gray text on light background please? It is annoying and user-hostile. I shouldn't have to squint to read a comment just because I arrived here later than those who think they deserve a better reading experience than I do.

New comment by larvaetron in "HP Tries Desperately to Make 'Printer as a Subscription' a Thing"

larvaetron — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 17:40:16 +0000

> Buy Brother printers.

Brother is going down the same path, sadly. They started pushing their EZ-Print subscription in a software update a few months ago.

New comment by larvaetron in "Asahi Linux project's OpenGL support on Apple Silicon officially surpasses Apple"

larvaetron — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 19:17:50 +0000

> didn't allow

How would he even enforce this?

New comment by larvaetron in "FCC rules AI-generated voices in robocalls illegal"

larvaetron — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 19:52:58 +0000

> STIR/SHAKEN is already required for VOIP providers

I'm not convinced that STIR/SHAKEN even works properly. Recently, I migrated a DID from one VOIP provider to another. I set the outbound caller ID on the new provider, and it was showing up Verified with a checkmark to mobile devices before I had even submitted the port request to the old provider.

New comment by larvaetron in "Security Issue: Cloud Site Manager presented me your consoles, not mine"

larvaetron — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 19:23:36 +0000

That was my first thought, it sounds similar to what happened with Klarna[1] a few years ago.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27301219

New comment by larvaetron in "macOS Sonoma Boot Failures"

larvaetron — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 00:58:53 +0000

> Text-only BIOS setup was the norm for a long time

I've had a GUI BIOS setup on almost every PC I've owned since the first 486 I built back in 1993.

New comment by larvaetron in "MenuetOS: An entire operating system in x86_64 assembly"

larvaetron — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 00:05:04 +0000

I don't see anything "kinda weird" about that.

New comment by larvaetron in ""You have a 27% 'AI' issue in here""

larvaetron — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 17:02:49 +0000

> bro what's the big deal bro just write the paper exactly the way we want you to bro

New comment by larvaetron in "No app, no entry: How the digital world is failing the non tech-savvy"

larvaetron — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 15:01:29 +0000

> There is no physical or mental disability preventing people using modern technology.

Judging by the amount of insufferable "Got it! Got it! Got it!" modals, pop ups and other bullshit in "modern" technology, the apps themselves are the disability - wasting time and getting in the way of doing the thing the user is actually trying to accomplish.

New comment by larvaetron in "Arm Announces Public Filing for Proposed Initial Public Offering"

larvaetron — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 09:39:54 +0000

SPO: Subsequent Public Offering

New comment by larvaetron in "Anonfiles is shutting down"

larvaetron — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 21:39:49 +0000

> do better

Can we keep the kindergarten-teacher-scolding tier comments to reddit, please?